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    A not so famous but still important oceanographer‚ a scientist who spends her whole job under water. This scientist’s name is Sylvia Earle. Sylvia Earle attended a university and went to college for about four to five years. Sylvia Earle decided to become an oceanographer when she was just in middle school. She knew she loved the sea since she was little. Sylvia Earle was born on August 30th‚ 1935. She is currently 81 years old and was born in Gibbstown Greenwich‚ Township New Jersey. She

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    yourself and frightened because the rest of the world expects something completely different from you - something you cannot give them. Something you don’t want to give them‚ if it were your choice. This is a highly auto-biographical account by Plath of a young girl finding that when she should be most excited about her life‚ she instead finds that things aren’t what she expected‚ and that the culture of the 1950’s doesn’t seem to allow for all that she wants‚ which begins her descent into depression

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    Sylvia Plath’s‚ The Bell Jar takes readers deep into the chaotic minds of not only Esther Greenwood‚ but also Plath herself. Many people believe that The Bell Jar is intended to be an autobiography with Plath using Esther to portray some of the issues that happen in her life. In 1953‚ Plath gets invited to be a guest editor and during this time she endures a mental breakdown. This parallel reveals the sources of the madness for Plath‚ Esther and women all over. According to Esther‚ this madness comes

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    In Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar‚ the appearances of color in the story gives the readers some of the idea how the characters’ are throughout the novel. The most interesting thing is when the color in the novel appeals to the abnormality of the personality and emotions of each character. Esther Greenwood‚ the main character in The Bell Jar‚ has a very significant mental development from the beginning of the story. Her mental breakdown is affected by the other characters and the environment. In this

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    Catalina Bustamante 9-5 The Bell Jar Essay 868 words Sylvia Plath’s first and only novel‚ The Bell Jar is an allegory of how deep and damaged a character can transform and feel trapped in their own surroundings. This is the story of Esther Greenwood a young girl‚ who wins a scholarship which is envied by many‚ every day‚ through every day actions that scar her emotionally and psychologically. Throughout the novel‚ Plath illustrates that every single action that may seem very insignificant

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    Summary: In this novel‚ Seventeen-year-old‚ Elena Dunkle‚ suffers the grating realities of an insidious disease known as‚ anorexia nervosa. She also falls under illnesses such as Obsessive-compulsive disorder‚ Bulimia‚ and many more physical conditions that soon consequent from her eating disorders. In the span of five years‚ the reader gains more insight and background knowledge about Elena’s life as she lives in the States from her nearing years in High school to her life in College as well. The

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    Isolation and Alienation in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar Kate Finnegan In Sylvia Plath’s modern novel‚ The Bell Jar‚ the main character Esther isolates and alienates herself throughout the book because she mentally ill. Because her descent into a deep depression is slow and she leads a productive life when the reader first meets her‚ this descent seems rational to the reader in the beginning. Esther has an artsy soul. She is a writer and dreamer. When she does not make it into the writing program

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    Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem‚ "Ode to the West Wind" and Sylvia Plath’s poem "Mirror" both employ the poetic tools of apostrophe‚ the address to something that is intangible‚ and personification‚ the application of human characteristics to something inanimate. However‚ they form a paradox in the usage of these tools through the imagery they create. Both poets have breathed life into inanimate objects‚ however death and aging are the prominent themes within both of these works. In "Ode to the West

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    Queen or Victim‚ the Duality of Female Authority and Oppression. Plath’s first poem in her venerable bee sequence‚ The Bee Meeting‚ offers fertile insight into the speaker of the poem’s struggle to adopt a voice in society and begs the ultimate question about women’s capacity to successfully break the chains of conformity. Plath’s multi-pronged approach addresses the poem’s persona’s confrontation with many social dichotomies. The most basic example of this duality is the fact that the speaker

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    Sylvie Plath’s “Daddy” explores the power imbalance of gender relations and the negative effects of oppression on women in a male-dominated society. The speaker’s portrayal of the patriarchal system as her “daddy” describes the infinite power enforced through hegemony on women and how women are “chuffed up as Jews” into slavery‚ suppression and loss of self-identity. The use of child discourse with words like “achoo” and “gobbledygoo” portrays the speaker as having a child-like innocence which ironically

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